12 Of The Best Digital Tools And Rhyming Dictionaries For Writing
These 12 rhyming dictionaries and tools can help you find rhyming words, synonyms, and other forms of creative wordplay.
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Actor’s Theatre Streaming Performances During COVID-19 Closure
Actors Theatre of Louisville announces Actors Theatre Direct: on-demand content to ensure that theatre continues to thrive during COVID-19 quarantine.
A Simple Definition For Poetry
A Simple Definition For Poetry by Terry Heick As an English teacher, my students would ask me ‘what a poem …
How Twitter Can Help Students Write Better Thesis Statements
Tweets are limited to 280 characters–plenty for a well-written sentence. Ask students to tweet their thesis statements in one sentence.
Don’t Teach Kids How To Read, Teach Them Why
Increasingly, books aren’t thought of as entertainment or even as ways to learn; they are thought of in terms of their form: as books.
21st Century Literacy: A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern Technology
A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern Technology by Terry Heick Why do we need a framework? Literacy instruction …
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Teaching Digital Students Non-Digital Things
Like thinking, reading in the 21st century is different–endlessly linked in an increasingly visible web of physical and digital media forms.
12 Strategies For Teaching Literature In The 21st-Century
How can you teach Shakespeare to students accustomed to tiny screens with brief flashes of communication that instantly fade away?
Nas Breaks Down Hip-Hop Classic ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell’ With Harvard Poetry Professor
Nas Breaks Down Hip-Hop Classic ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell’ With Harvard Poetry Professor by Terry Heick In April of …
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How My Students Organize Their Language Arts Binder
How My Students Organize Their Language Arts Binder by Terry Heick For many humanities teachers, how you have students organize …
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‘The Objective’ As Read By Wendell Berry
“Even while I dreamed I prayed that what I saw was only fear and no foretelling, for I saw the last known landscape destroyed for the sake of the objective–the soil bulldozed, the rock blasted.”
How I Use Data To Motivate Students To Become Better Readers
How I Use Data To Motivate Students To Become Better Readers contributed by Kelley Spencer Adcock I have a lot in …
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